Article
Cytology-negative lower-genital-tract lesion burden in postmenopausal women with persistent HPV infection: genotype-specific and multicentric associations
2026-07-27
Abstract excerpt
<title>Abstract</title> <p>Background Persistent human papillomavirus (HPV) infection after menopause is clinically challenging because epithelial atrophy, sampling difficulty, and transformation-zone migration may reduce the reassurance provided by cytology. Although HPV genotyping is now central to risk-based management, lesion burden among cytology-negative postmenopausal women with persistent HPV infection r...
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- Literature Corpus work
- b1a7e7fc-c050-5aac-874e-2f714c86d930
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-10410373/v1
